Aspiration pyrometer



vvardly bevveen said Surface and. said b10ck and though said duct at a velOciy Sucient to cause a central portion of Said air StreaIn adjacent salid Surface at the entrance of said duct to be aspi- Tated thereto substantia11y wholly directly frorn contact with said surface and an outer portion of Said` air streaIn at the entrance of said duct to be aSpiated theret in part directly from contact vvith Said surface and iI1 part directly fr0n contact with said bck, a pyrometric e1enlent in the entrance t0 said duct positioned in and ther many exposed to said central portion of said air stream and having an e1ectrica1 characteristic vvhich varies vvith hange 0f Said ten1perature of Said Surface and nleans responSive t0 change of said electric 1 characteristic for n1eaSuring aid tenperature of said Surface including electrica1 1eads operative1y connected to and wholly Sup porting said elenlent, the Zlajor portions of the lengths of said leadS being traversed by and therlnally exposed to said outer portion of said air strean1 said lengths being great c0npared with the largest dimension of the temperature-Sensi tive area 0f said pyr0Eletric elernent and at least as great in length as the width of the entrance of Said duct whereby heating of Said leads neaT1y to the tenlperature 0f sarid eletnent reduces heat dissipation therefron to il1prove the accuracy of said nleasure!nent, Said Supporting structure being disposed in a radial plane adjacent the entrance to the duct and in juxtap0sition to said surface 6 aspirat10n pyrometer con1prising a b10ck having one face thereof conforming generally in shape to a rotating body vvhose tenpeature is to be neaSured for disp0sition in close juxtap0 Sition to the Surface of Said body. Said. b10ck hav ing a suction duct extending therethrough vvith a nlouth there0f facing toward said Surfa'ce for invvard flow Of air adjacent the peiphery of said Inouth fronl between Said surface and Said face 9a thern10couple having a hot junction and a cold junction, Ineans supporting the hot junction of said ther[nocouple substantia11y in the plane of said face and ce11t1'a1ly of said naouth and invvardly spaced fron Said flovv of ail' adjacent Said periphey of Said nlouth, said supporting Ineans including the leads of said thernocouple, said leads being 0f Inaterially greater length than a dianleter of the largest portion of said Inouth and disposed in a nonlinear path betvveen the hoi; jl11cti011 and the supporting !Tleans, Said nlouth being enlarged in the vicizlity of the non li1eal1' path of Said leads to fornl a STlall recess of cross-Sectiona1 area sornewhat larger than the area occasioned by the hot junction and the non- 1i1ea1' path of said leads and providing a' flovv pth for said 1W of ail' in avoidance of said hot junction and in heating relation with the nonlinea1 disposition of sid leads, said hot junction thereby being disp0sed in a thernlally guarded region Subject to a ten1perature Inost nearly approxin1ating that 0f said body.

7. An aspiration pyrometer for measuring the tenperature Of al Inoving Surface conlprising a stationary block conforrning genera1ly in shape t0 a portion of said Suface Lnd adapted to be positioned in close juxtaposition therewith, said block having a duct interlnediate the edges there Of opening tovard said surface vvhen said b10ck is thus positioned, means for drawing a stream of air i1`va1'd1y between said Surface and said b10ck and through said duct, Said block at the nlouth of said duct being Shped so that a central portion of Said air Strean adjacent sajid surface at the rnouth of Said duct iS aspirated therein Substantially vvholly directly fr0In contact with Said surface and an outer pOrt0n of said air strean1 0f said duct is aspirated therein in part directly fron1 contact vvith said Surface and in part direct ly fron1 contact with said block a thern10couple positioned iI1 Said n1outh and having its hot junction Spaced froIn the inner periphera1 Surface of said 1T10uth Whereby said junction is therlnally exposed to said central portion of said air stream fol Ineasuring the ten1perature of said surface and Supporting structure for said thern10couple including its leads, the leads there0f being dis posed in a plane 2tdjacent said rnouth and being of Substantia1 1ength and long enough to be contacted in a' plurality 0f dierent zones by the outer portion of the air strean1 aspirated into said nlouth vvhereby the heating of said Supporting structure including said leads reduces 10SS of heat frorn said hot junction and thus 11ai1tains its temperature more nearly that of the air directly aspirated fron1 Said nloving surface.

JOI1T E. QUEBEAIT{ ALBERT B. TEAGUE REFERENCES CITED The following Teferences are of record in the me of tms patent;

TINITED STATES PA''ENTS Number Name Date l 758,532 Phinney 1`.[a'y 13 1930 1,883, A1bert Oct. 18 1932 2,80,703 Bradner et al. (Aug. 30 199 2,508,25 vvhittaker 1"ay 16 1950 OTHER REEERENCES R'oese' et a'1.; "1"[easure1T!ent of surface T'en1- peratures 1esearch Paper 1`To. 231 Bureau of standards Journal of 1eSearch vol. 5 ()ctober 1930 pages 79797, 

